Monday, June 20, 2016

Well, it's Hoplophobia Season again, as your friendly (in appearance only) politicians scramble to stand atop the fifty-some bodies of those killed at Pulse Orlando. As usual, their media friends will say "no one wants to take your guns," even as they say explicitly that they do want to disarm you. Here are some examples:

The first is an old one, from August of last year, from science fiction, fantasy and comic book writer Peter David, which is a shame, as David can be a good writer when he wants to be. Still, at least he's honest and up-front about his desire to disarm America's population, which is more than I can say for most hoplophobes and victim disarmers.

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Amitai Etzioni, a current proponent of what's called "communitarianism," wrote the next piece in The Huffington Post yesterday, and suggests that they probably will need to be sneaky about disarming the American population:

Saturday, June 4, 2016

"Governments can create the climate for economic growth . . . [but] only the private sector can produce a peace that will endure."

Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher,(1 December 2004). Prosperity in the New Middle East: Building the Structures of Peace, remarks made at the 1994 MENA Economic Summit. Casablanca, Morocco.